Admission

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. Explore how your family can become part of our community of learners.

Community

At Carolina Friends School, community is formed and found in ways both big and small. Personal relationships are at the core of our work, and we greatly value the connection of our family and staff as well as our partnerships in the broader community.

Support CFS

Carolina Friends School has relied on the enthusiasm and gifts of its supporters and community members from its founding. Discover how you can further our mission and impact current and future students.

Admission

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. Explore how your family can become part of our community of learners.

Community

At Carolina Friends School, community is formed and found in ways both big and small. Personal relationships are at the core of our work, and we greatly value the connection of our family and staff as well as our partnerships in the broader community.

Support CFS

Carolina Friends School has relied on the enthusiasm and gifts of its supporters and community members from its founding. Discover how you can further our mission and impact current and future students.

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Student Support in the Lower School

The Lower School builds upon the work of the Early Schools to provide open communication about student needs. Students in the Lower School are moving through developmental stages at different rates and may demonstrate differing needs for support and modifications in our learning environment.

Lower School students are of an ideal age to begin to identify learning differences and needs. When teachers or parents have a question about a student’s progress, they begin a conversation with one another about the concern.

Teachers and/or parents may find it necessary to gather further information about a child’s learning through observation by our Learning Specialist, Caroline Hexdall, or, for example, an evaluation for psychoeducational, speech and language, occupational therapy, or other needs. Costs for these evaluations are covered by parents.

As a result of this type of information gathering, teachers will identify the specific accommodations and/or services that will best support the student in our learning environment.

Accommodations that might be considered, within limits, include:

Preferential seating;

Behavioral contracts;

Access to audiobooks, word processors, tracking cards for reading;

Kinesthetic cues;

Quiet background music;

Noise-blocking headphones

Separate work space

Modified homework.

Necessary services, such as tutoring, academic coaching, speech/language therapy, occupational therapy, and others will be provided and paid for by the parents. For tutoring and academic coaching, parents may contract through the CFS Student Support Program if they’d like to obtain services at school.

Meet the Lower School Learning Specialist

Student Success Program

Carolina Friends School contracts with professional tutors and coaches to provide services to our students on our campus both during the school day and after school. Student Success staff members have had background checks and are experienced in their respective fields.

Carolina Friends School

Carolina Friends School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community empowering students to think critically, creatively, and independently. We foster active exploration and quiet reflection, individual endeavor and collaborative engagement. Inspired by Quaker values — pursuit of truth, respect for all, peaceful resolution of conflict, simplicity, the call to service — we teach our children that it is possible to change the world.